Transition to Clerkship Courses: Preparing Students to Enter the Workplace

enhancing transition to workplace

Preparing to prescribe: How do clerkship students learn in the midst of complexity?

Prescribing tasks, which involve pharmacological knowledge, clinical decision-making and practical skill, take place within unpredictable social environments and involve interactions within and between endlessly changing health care teams. Despite this, curriculum designers commonly assume them to be simple to learn and perform. This research used mixed methods to explore how undergraduate medi...

Flipped classroom approach to ophthalmology clerkship courses for Chinese students of eight-year program

For centuries, didactic teaching sections have occupied a large proportion of the available teaching-learning time in medical courses. This form of teaching has relied heavily on professors disseminating information through lectures and students passively absorbing knowledge for a majority of the class period. The extensive use of traditional lectures limits students’ time to actively learn, sy...

Enhancing Transition to Workplace

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Nursing managers and policy makers must adopt holistic approaches and refocus on efforts on all factors that hinder effective coping with transition to the working environment. Researches have demonstrated that new graduates encounter a degree of ''emotional hardness'' and cynicism during clinical placements, which can influence...

Preparing Our Undergraduates to Enter a Cyber World

Today’s students have grown up with computer-based technology and need to be prepared to enter a career in a digital world. This includes an understanding of the broader implications of technology such as the growing threat of cyber-crime and cyber-terrorism, cyber-ethics, the legal and social implications of technology, and the local and global impacts. At our institution, we have taken a broa...